Re: Why does X default to vt7?

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From: Robert Brockway
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:00

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Jeremy Laidman (Jeremy.Laidman@cit.act.edu.au) wrote:
: allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au wrote:
: 
: > On my Debian box X comes up on vt7.  I want to shift it to
: > vt11 but I cannot find anything to edit to make the change.
: 
: I think X uses the first unused vt.  If you start a getty on vt10
: then X should go on vt11.

That is true, but you can force the X server to use a particular (unused)
VC.  Man Xfree86 (from memory) for details.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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